First AppearanceDragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008)
Power Level~1,500 (estimated). Non-combatant Saiyan. Exiled by King Vegeta for lacking warrior instinct.
Signature MovesFlight, Ki Blast (limited), Diplomacy, Survival Through Kindness
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Tarble is Vegeta's long-lost younger brother, a Saiyan anomaly whose gentle nature and lack of combat aptitude led King Vegeta to banish him from the royal family as a child, deeming him an embarrassment unfit for the Saiyan throne. Unlike nearly every other Saiyan in existence, Tarble possessed no battle instinct whatsoever, surviving not through conquest but through kindness, forming bonds with aliens who protected him rather than the other way around.Tarble is Vegeta's long-lost younger brother, a Saiyan anomaly whose gentle nature and lack of combat aptitude led King Vegeta to banish him from the royal family as a child, deeming him an embarrassment unfit for the Saiyan throne. Unlike nearly every other Saiyan in existence, Tarble possessed no battle instinct whatsoever, surviving not through conquest but through kindness, forming bonds with aliens who protected him rather than the other way around. His existence was unknown to Vegeta for decades until the 2008 Jump Festa special Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, in which Tarble arrived on Earth seeking help against Abo and Cado, two rogue Frieza Force remnants pursuing him across the galaxy. Vegeta's reaction to his brother's existence — a mixture of contempt for Tarble's weakness and genuine, begrudging familial acknowledgment — was characteristic of his conflicted Saiyan pride. The special ended with Tarble settling on Earth alongside his diminutive alien wife Gure, integrating into the extended Briefs family. Though Tarble has not appeared in the main Dragon Ball Super anime, his canonicity was confirmed when Vegeta mentioned having a younger brother during the Battle of Gods arc, a detail that aligned with Tarble's established existence. Tarble's role in the lore, while small, illuminates the Saiyan royal family's dysfunction: King Vegeta had three sons (Vegeta, Tarble, and a third unnamed firstborn in some continuities), and his willingness to exile his own child for lacking ruthlessness reveals the toxic culture that produced Vegeta's own cruelty. Tarble represents the road not taken for Saiyan royalty: a life of peace and family, the very values Vegeta would later embrace but could never admit Tarble had discovered first. His absence from major arcs leaves his current status ambiguous, but his existence enriches the Saiyan family tree with proof that even the royal bloodline could produce kindness.... Read more
